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Sept. 22, 2025, 1:03 p.m.
Kherson city council deputy put on the wanted list for high treason
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Kostiantyn Syvak, former deputy of the Kherson City Council. PHOTO: investigator.org.ua
Law enforcement officers put Kherson City Council deputy Kostyantyn Syvak on the wanted list on suspicion of treason. He allegedly collaborated with the occupation authorities and transferred property to the environmental inspection.
This was reported by Most.
Konstantin Syvak, a deputy of the Kherson City Council and former head of the State Environmental Inspectorate of the Southern District, was put on the wanted list. Information about this was entered in the register of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, the date of disappearance is September 18, 2025.
Konstantin Syvak, a deputy of the Kherson City Council, was notified of suspicion of high treason in late August. He was charged with intentionally assisting a foreign state in conducting subversive activities against Ukraine.
According to the investigation, in 2020, Kostiantyn Syvak was elected as a deputy of the Kherson City Council of the VIII convocation. After the occupation of Kherson by Russian troops in March-April 2022, he established contact with representatives of the aggressor state and systematically maintained communication with them. According to law enforcement officers, the official voluntarily handed over to the representatives of the Russian occupation authorities material assets belonging to the State Ecological Inspectorate of the Southern District. These included a boat and boats.
Back in January 2023, the media reported that Syvak planned to work in the occupation administration and was considered for the position of first the director of the Department of Ecology, and then the so-called Minister of Ecology of the occupation authorities. The appointment never happened, and he stayed in Kherson all the time. The DBR investigator opened a criminal case against Syvak on April 14, 2022.
Also in 2023, he filed a lawsuit against the State Environmental Inspectorate of Ukraine and asked the court to declare the order of November 11, 2022, on his dismissal illegal and reinstate him in the civil service.
In August, the SBU served a notice of suspicion to Konstantin Basyuk, who was appointed by the Russian occupiers as a "senator" from Kherson region. He is accused of propaganda in favor of the aggressor and justifying Russia's armed aggression, as well as calling on residents of the occupied territories to join the Russian army for the promise of high salaries.
